With TM Teacher Ron Decter and Special Guest Dr. William Sands

Veda means knowledge. Knowledge of what? Knowledge of life. In colleges and universities, various branches of learning provide knowledge of different subjects, but they reveal only certain aspects of life. As a result, in university education, the Veda is taught as a collection of books on different subjects.

But in Maharishi’s view, Veda represents the totality of knowledge found within the eternal, immortal field of pure consciousness, which underlies the entire manifest universe—uni-verse—unity in diversity. And the Vedic literature is found as the expressions of the self-interacting dynamics of this infinite field of pure intelligence.

How does the oneness of Consciousness create diversity within itself?

Our guest, Dr. William Sands, will explain how self-referral Consciousness looks at itself, thus moving within itself, and expressing itself as unmanifest sounds. Imagine tapping a still dish of water: waves emerge. Tap again: it breaks into many waves. Similarly, the Vedic sounds constitute the Laws of Nature that create and administer the universe—the abstract source of the concrete world.

Dr. Sands will also discuss the direct correlation between the 40 different aspects of the Vedas and the structure and functions of the human physiology, illustrating how our own bodies embody that wholeness. This raises the individual dignity of human beings to the cosmic dignity of the universe.

Dr. Sands completed his undergraduate studies at Georgetown University and received an MA and PhD from Maharishi International University (MIU). He is the Dean of the College of Maharishi Vedic Science at MIU and has worked in the TM organization for over 50 years, including 15 years directly with Maharishi. The author of five books and numerous articles on Vedic Science, he has lectured in Europe, the Middle East, India, and throughout Asia.
Join us for an introduction to the ancient Vedic wisdom of India.

Begins with a 20-minute group TM.

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